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title: "Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity"
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# Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

**Brand:** c. riley snorton
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- **What is this?** Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity by c. riley snorton
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Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Great book
  

*by K***L on Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024*

Really important book from a severely underrepresented perspective. Required reading.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Amazing intervention in Trans studies
  

*by A***T on Reviewed in the United States on October 16, 2018*

I was drawn to C. Riley Snorton’s Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity due to my interest in archiving and its usefulness for Black trans studies. Some of the questions taken up by the work are: What are the possibilities of archives and what narratives emerge from them? How does one engage with transness, particularly racialized trans subjects, in an archive? How does one define transness in the confines of Blackness and vice versa? By dissecting Snorton’s work, one notes that he provides a ruttier for how to engage in critical archival studies for research on Black individuals.Black on Both Sides traces Black “trans” subjectivity in the 19th and 20th century; each chapter takes up an event in history such as the nonconsensual gynecological testing of Black women in the 19th century or mid-twentieth century newspaper articles on individuals whose gender expression does not align with their assigned gender. He utilizes “trans” subjectivity to investigate moments where Black individuals become ungendered or transgress racialized gender boundaries. Snorton argues, that this work, “is not a history per se so much as it is a set of political propositions, theories of history and writerly experiments.”(6) He draws upon on a deep and varied archive of materials—early sexological texts, fugitive slave narratives, Afro-modernist literature, sensationalist journalism, and Hollywood films.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Slaps You in the Face with the Truth
  

*by R***3 on Reviewed in the United States on December 13, 2022*

Al amazing book that details the pain, indignities and suffering many of our African-American forebearers endured in order to be seen not only as human, but for some of us to be recognized as transgender.  Definitely a book that should be added to all LGBTQ+ libraries.

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